On January 8, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 7, 10 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A woman is in serious condition after suffering burns inside a room at The Cove in Lake Geneva. Lake Geneva police responded to the hotel around 3:15 a.m. on Monday, January 9th for an “activated fire alarm.” While en route, officers received a second call for service of a female yelling for help at a hotel nearby.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 8:34:41 AM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

Forty-eight people died from fires in New York City last year, the fewest at any point in more than a century, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday. The decline — with the total far below the peak of 310 people in 1970 — was attributed by officials to a combination of initiatives undertaken by the Fire Department, including improved response times, fire inspections, a program to hand out smoke alarms and expanded fire education programs.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Times

A City Council committee decided Monday that Minneapolis will pay $175,000 to a former firefighter cadet who sued the city for discrimination. Dominique Sabas, of St. Paul, was a probationary firefighter cadet in 2013, but in the final week of training the Fire Department dismissed her, arguing that she had failed to disclose a previous medical condition.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune

Washington Twp. is offering a $1,000 signing bonus to new firefighter recruits, in an effort to help fill approximately 30 part-time positions. Deputy fire Chief Scott Kujawa said the need to fill the positions in the department comes out of necessity with there being a shortage of available firefighters in the region.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Dayton Daily News

City Manager Sharon A. Addison has given Fire Chief Dale C. Herman an ultimatum about his involvement in a bitter contract fight between the city and the firefighters’ union. In a heated telephone call on Friday, Ms. Addison threatened his job if he didn’t become more of a team player in the city’s ongoing contract battle with the Watertown Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 191.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times

A former Birmingham firefighter mailed a flier to 1,000 homes this week that’s critical of a captain on the city’s fire department. In a series of emails, Mike McIntyre admits he’s responsible for sending out the flier. McIntyre became a Birmingham firefighter in June 2015 and served with the department until several weeks ago, when he accepted a resignation settlement.
- PUB DATE: 1/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Detroit Free Press

VIDEO: The true gift of Christmas came a day later for one West Allis family when firefighters helped deliver a baby girl inside the home. On Monday, the team of first responders revisited the growing family and played Santa Claus, dropping off gifts for 5-year-old Marcianno, his 2 week old sister, Milan, and their parents.
- PUB DATE: 1/9/2017 10:43:59 PM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee

On January 9, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

VIDEO: Many of us are looking forward to the day we can finally wake up, not have to go to work, and enjoy the life of being retired; and that's what's happening for one local firefighter. Monday, the nation's first-ever Hmong firefighter worked his last shift in Eau Claire, leaving his mark in firefighting history.
- PUB DATE: 1/9/2017 8:04:58 PM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV 13 News

VIDEO: Officials with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in conjunction with the Milwaukee Police Department have released photos and video of a suspect who may be responsible for arson to the BP gas station during the unrest in August in Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood.
- PUB DATE: 1/9/2017 3:39:23 PM - SOURCE: WITI Fox Channel 6

VIDEO: Along the Lakeshore, it was a close call for four ice fishermen. The men needed to be rescued. The ice they were fishing on, broke loose, and began to float into the waters of Green Bay. It happened Sunday afternoon in Door County. They were near Circle Ridge Road, in the Town of Gardner. "We did see the individuals that were in need of rescue about 400-450 yards off shore," said Tim Dietman, Sturgeon Bay, Fire Chief.
- PUB DATE: 1/9/2017 3:36:58 PM - SOURCE: WLUK TV Fox 11

On January 8, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 7, 9 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Four people are homeless following an early Monday morning duplex fire. Firefighters received a call at 4:25 a.m. for the fire at 1719 Beech Tree Drive, according to a Green Bay Metro Fire Department news release. The fire started when a truck in the driveway burst into flames. It quickly spread to the duplex and into both attics, partially collapsing the roof.
- PUB DATE: 1/9/2017 7:37:01 AM - SOURCE: Green Bay Press-Gazette

On January 8, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 7, 8 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On January 6, 7 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

A firefighter with the Houston Fire Department could lose one of his eyes after he was stabbed by a man he was trying to rescue on Friday. Capt. Kenneth Willingham was responding to a fire at a business on Highway 6 when he found a man unresponsive inside. A Houston Police officer forced entry with a sledgehammer and when Willingham tried to pull the man out, the man stabbed him in the eye with a pocket knife.
- PUB DATE: 1/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHOU-TV CBS 11 Houston